State Rep. Rachel Roarx introduces bill to make red light cameras legal in Louisville | News

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — A man was killed after walking across the street in downtown Louisville and police are at present looking for the dashing driver who hit him.

It occurred within the coronary heart of downtown Louisville, proper close to the conference heart. Police say the drive of a maroon Dodge Challenger was dashing down Jefferson Avenue round 3 a.m. Sunday morning and the driving force hit a person crossing the crosswalk.

The person died on the hospital and police are nonetheless looking for the driving force who fled the scene.

“One other vehicular loss of life is a tragedy for our metropolis and my coronary heart goes out to the household as a result of nobody ought to must take care of that ache,” State Rep. Rachel Roarx, D-38, mentioned.

The ache she hears from households is what Roarx says is what prompted her to file Home Invoice 73.

It requires velocity enforcement and red-light cameras to be allowed in Kentucky.

“There needs to be further instruments that town needs to be taking and our state to make it possible for this stuff grow to be preventable and we’re doing one thing about it,” she mentioned.

Drivers caught on digicam dashing or operating a pink gentle can be fined $50 for the primary offense. It could be as much as native communities the place the cameras needs to be positioned.

The concept is to alter habits and save lives.

“It is the factor that I most likely hear most from constituents, is that they wish to see our streets be safer,” Roarx mentioned.

Present legislation prohibits using such cameras. The same invoice was filed within the state senate final 12 months however did not go. 

When Roarx was sworn into office on Jan. 1, she said at her first day in Frankfort, she would introduce the bill for traffic enforcement cameras.

Imaginative and prescient Zero Louisville confirmed the scope of the issue.

In Louisville final 12 months, 119 folks have been killed in site visitors crashes and 480 extra have been severely injured.

Roarx says the cameras have confirmed efficient in additional than 150 communities throughout america in dramatically decreasing dashing and severe or deadly crashes.

“Nobody ought to must die in a preventable loss of life on our streets in Louisville,” she mentioned.

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